Case · UFO Afrinews No 20, July 1999
Dr Roger Leir's implant removals and the Strange Daze critique
1998 ยท United States, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Hind summarises Dr Roger Leir's MUFON Journal article claiming removal of suspected implants from a woman's toe and a man's hand. X-rays reportedly showed metallic objects covered in a dark grey shiny membrane that a new surgical blade could not cut; patients reacted violently when the objects were touched, had suffered pain for a week beforehand, and afterwards told a psychologist of a new-found freedom. One object was said to have a core of the hardest iron carbide known and to be magnetic, with independent reviews calling it made with purpose and precision. Hind then relays the critique by Dr Trevor Jordan and Barry Jones of ASKE in Strange Daze, agreeing that Leir published without scientific reference data and that small objects in hands and feet could be ordinary foreign bodies picked up barefoot in childhood.
What Hind made of it
Sides with Jordan and Jones on the errors and omissions while rejecting their harshness; had Leir proved the materials unknown she would have taken notice, but investigators are too easily taken in and magazines must check facts before publication.
Explanation offered
Ordinary foreign objects such as a needle picked up while barefoot as a child
In their words
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Leir should not have published his findings without scientific and specific reference data.
Cross references
- MUFON Journal, June 1998
- Strange Daze, Winter 1999 (editor Dave Newton)
- UFO Afrinews No 19 (implants)